All posts by Guest Contributor
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Becoming Self-Sufficient and Ten Ways to Get There
We are now three to five generations removed from the rural backbone that strengthened America. The world at large has undergone a similar transformation as...
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How To Test Your Family’s Survival Skills
Are you looking for a challenging way to put your family’s survival skills and teamwork to the test? Nothing will assess the grit and endurance...
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51 Alternative Uses for Baking Soda
One of the things that routinely come up when you are thinking about stocking your pantry are items that you can’t eat, but might need....
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Top 10 Android Apps That Might Save Your Life
There are four things that I grab every day before I walk out of the house. My keys will get me to work, my wallet has my cash, my knife is...
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Training Your Children for Self Sustainability
Being able to take care of one’s own self. I cannot express the importance of this simple phrase. We are a family of ten. Yes,...
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Winter Prepper Project Ideas – Outdoors
Winter Property Assessments When we think of winter prepper project idea, we commonly think of things that can help us beat or evade the cold...
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Abandoned Mines: SHTF Survival Shelter Option? Pt. 2
Caching Supplies There are numerous articles dealing with the caching of supplies on this and other Prepper sites. Within the context of abandoned mines, my principal...
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Abandoned Mines: SHTF Survival Shelter Option? Pt. 1
What lured the early settlers and adventure seekers to the vast territory of the American West? In a word: Gold. Early exploitation of minerals and...
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Wilderness Safety Tips for Women
In today’s world, when a calamity knocks, people would go after one another to offer help and support each other all the way. However,...
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10 Survivor Traits Every Prepper Should Have
Sometimes, you can instantly spot the characteristics of a prepper. On the other hand, in certain times,...
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No Excuses – You Have to Do Something Now
This digging spurred me on in my prepping efforts and became my motivation for a lot of different beliefs but I have learned over time...
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Survival Skills: Scavenge A Vehicle For Survival
But if you end up in an emergency situation, and you need to tear up your ride for the raw materials as a matter of...
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How to Tie a Hangman’s Noose Knot
Before I get the angry emails about how many people have been found innocent and are exonerated by DNA evidence let me clarify what I...
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How To Make A Shelter In The Woods
You can live 3 hours without shelter.
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You Won’t Get to Pick the Disaster
I probably wouldn’t have been a good candidate for a prepper on Doomsday Preppers for a lot of reasons not the least of which is...
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Looting vs Scavenging
For many of us, just about any recent examples of disasters, protests, sports riots or uprisings in various forms illustrate a certain amount of looting....
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How To Keep In Touch With Loved Ones During Disasters
I was reading an article about the mega disaster in Japan in 2011 and how difficult it was for the victims to ask for medical...
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4 Tips to Keep Fear from Wrecking Your Prepping Plans
Fear can be the ultimate motivator. People in a plane that is rapidly plummeting to the ground are suddenly motivated to clasp their hands together...
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Power to Go!
We recently wrote of batteries for electric devices, the value of rechargeable, assuming a reliable power source, as well as home generators, something to the...
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Training Day – Putting your Bug Out Bag to the Test in the Real World
Our family decided to go on a backpacking trip for a few days into the wilderness. For this trip we would be staying overnight in...
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Choosing Your Shelter: BOLs vs. Bunkers
When it comes to surviving TEOTWAWKI, nothing is more important than choosing your shelter whether that is your bunker situated near your home, or somewhere...
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How to Prepare for a Power Grid Outage
Anyone who’s lived in Florida during hurricane season knows that you can’t always rely on the power grid for electricity. Residents of Texas also know...
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10 Self Defense Tips for Women
In a perfect world, one would like to think that when disaster strikes, people would rush to help and support each other through it. And...
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Safe Water If the Grid Goes Down – Part II
In Part 1, we discussed the conundrum of water; how it was necessary, but safe water is not always available. We listed what could contaminate...
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Simple Winter Car Survival Kit
There were lots of times when people were stranded in their cars, forced to sleep in the floors of local stores and cities that looked...
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Safe Water If the Grid Goes Down – Part I
Water is a critical component of life. Go without any for three days, and your chances of being dead are very high. We are used...
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9 Prepping Lessons from American Blackout
Like millions of others, I plopped down to watch National Geographic’s American Blackout. I was curious to see how the hypothetical scenario of a 10...
